Syndicating your own blog is something quite different. You can use the rss feed provided by wordpress.com. The rss feed for posts is: http:\\yourblogname.wordpress.com\feed\ By subscribing to your feed, your readers can receive your blog posts through whatever rss feed reader they use.

You can also put an rss feed from another site in a widget in a sidebar or footer or other widget area of your wordpress.com. WordPress.com does not provide a way to feed an rss feed directly into a post or page, however, since that can be used by spam-bloggers and blog scrapers to "reblog" in an unacceptable way.

Oh, and change those slashes so they go in the other direction -- having a slight dyslexic moment there -- or a typing problem, or something. It should be http://yourblognamehere.wordpress.com/feed for the rss feed.

I meant linking someone elses blog to my blog for others to read from my site...... glad to know I can do that without asking......thanks so much for the feedback ; )
I'm so new to this...... can you explain what an rss feed is?

But essentially, if I subscribe to someone's rss feed, I can use a feed reader (there are all sorts, including Google Reader and some browser-specific feed readers, such as Brief for Firefox) to read their posts. Posts can either be pushed through the feed as entire articles or in summary form with just the first portion of the article showing. I subscribe to most blogs using an rss feed, and to a number of news outlets, as well.

@karmais, use the RSS widget in the sidebar of your blog to do that. You cannot put a feed directly into a post or page as that is what sploggers (spam bloggers) do and wordpress is very careful not to support sploggers.

Use the RSS feed widget and then if people want to read the posts they can click on the links or excerpt and go to that site.